A children's book by Tim Lipp

Don't Worry,
Be Mappy

A story about drawing your map in a world that's always growing. Built on the economic theory of mapitalism — where growth is measured by coordination, not accumulation.

Explore the spreads The theory

Turning it upside down

The roots push up into the soil — dense, compacted, rough. The canopy opens down into the air — spacious, breathing, free. Same tree, inverted. The inward journey is where the complexity lives; the outward journey is where it blooms.

ground INWARD — ROOTS — SOIL Be Scrappy Be Chappy Be Chappy Be Nappy Be Nappy Be Tappy Be Tappy Opening: Be Wrappy BE MAPPY Closing: Be Wrappy Be Sappy Be Sappy Be Zappy Be Zappy Be Snappy Be Snappy Be Clappy OUTWARD — CANOPY — AIR

The spreads

Click any spread to reveal the economic infrastructure beneath the story.

The organising question

What does a caregiver need to know so they don't teach their child to be a narcissist?

Narcissism is not born from too much love. It is born from love that teaches a child they are the centre of the world rather than a participant in it. Every spread builds one emotional capacity that is the opposite of narcissism — empathy over ego, connection over achievement, vulnerability over control.

A narcissist is someone whose map has only one point on it: themselves. This book teaches a child to draw a map with a thousand points — and to find joy in the drawing, not in being drawn.